Auteur: Auke

By all logic, Frisian should be dead. It’s a small language surrounded by one of the world’s…

When someone asks “how old is English?” or “how old is German?”, the answer is surprisingly tricky….

The history of language is a fascinating topic that shows us how our communication has changed over…

The Frisians are a Germanic ethnic group that historically inhabited parts of the coastal regions of the…

The Frisian flag is one of the most distinctive regional flags in Europe. With its diagonal blue…

Frisians didn’t just stay on their flat, windswept coast. Over the centuries, they left — sometimes by…

Every culture gets stereotyped, and Frisians are no exception. But stereotypes about Frisians are interesting because many…

The Frisians have a long history of fighting — against Romans, Franks, Vikings, Hollanders, and occasionally each…

Old Frisian hasn’t been a living language for centuries, but it left behind a vocabulary that’s raw,…

Were the Frisians Vikings? It depends on how you define “Viking.” If you mean Scandinavian raiders from…

On September 26, 1345, a Hollander invasion force landed on the Frisian coast near the village of…

The Dutch are the tallest people on Earth. That’s not folklore — it’s a statistically documented fact….